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theniftyfifties: Alfred Hitchcock on the set of ‘Alfred...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:44:32 -0400

Alfred Hitchcock on the set of ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’, Los Angeles, May 1956. Photo by Otto Ludwig Bettmann.

motherjones: Kind of an important omission. Always proofread,...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:43:27 -0400

Kind of an important omission. Always proofread, friends - even a tweet - ESPECIALLY on a story as significant and tragic as this.

motherjones: A brief history of campaign finance. George...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:05:49 -0400

motherjones:

A brief history of campaign finance. George Washington didn’t mess around.

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:04:58 -0400

politicalprof: That Nixon waves a victory salute at the door of...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:51:42 -0400

politicalprof:

That Nixon waves a victory salute at the door of the helicopter taking him away from the White House just before his resignation takes effect makes this video both pitiful and satisfying. For the victory was ours, not his.

Notably, when Nixon got to Andrews Air Force Base to fly back to California, his resignation was not yet in effect. Accordingly, he was still the President of the United States and boarded Air Force One for the journey. However, about halfway home his resignation went into effect, and since he was no longer President, the airplane he was on could no longer be designated AIr Force One. This led to a mostly forgotten moment in American history, when the Air Force pilot flying Nixon home called to Kansas City air traffic control with the request, “‘Kansas City, this was Air Force One. Will you change our call sign to SAM 27000?”

And so power passed peacefully and successfully in the greatest known scandal of presidential abuse of power in American history.

politicalprof: Nixon’s resignation speech, August 8,...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:34:41 -0400

politicalprof:

Nixon’s resignation speech, August 8, 1974.

Politicalprof was only 10 when this happened, but let me tell you: it was a hell of a thing. The government and people of the United States were able to overcome the corruption and abuses of the President of the United States. Sometimes the right thing can happen even when it hurts.

Change The Ratio: Mars! Get Caught Up

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:05:58 -0400

Change The Ratio: Mars! Get Caught Up:

changetheratio:

Wooo! The Mars Curiosity landed safely!

If you’re too busy for AWESOME SPACE HISTORY:

—> Behold, the Women of @MarsCuriosity: http://t.co/5Ovd3cnT #JPL #MSL

If you’re not! Read on:

Factiods!

Mission Control was NASA’s #JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - in Pasadena,…

lucynic83: Vacation from Marriage

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:48:09 -0400

lucynic83:

Vacation from Marriage

garp: Geraldine Hoff Doyle, was a 17 years (in 1942) while she...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:14:00 -0400

garp:

Geraldine Hoff Doyle, was a 17 years (in 1942) while she was working at the American Broach & Machine Co. when a photographer snapped a pic of her on the job.

That image used by J. Howard Miller for the “We Can Do It!” poster, released during World War II.

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Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:07:41 -0400

newyorker: Cartoon of the night. For...

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:06:13 -0400

newyorker:

Cartoon of the night. For more: http://nyr.kr/PIRIb7

soupsoup: Good call on the otters (Taken with Instagram at...

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:12:40 -0400

soupsoup:

Good call on the otters (Taken with Instagram at London 2012 Main Press Centre / International Broadcast Centre)

newyorker: Cartoon of the night. For...

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:00:31 -0400

newyorker:

Cartoon of the night. For more: http://nyr.kr/LI8ylt

"Alex liked a good fight, and we had our share—always about politics, since nothing less was really..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:45:21 -0400

“Alex liked a good fight, and we had our share—always about politics, since nothing less was really worth arguing over. I thought his ideas about climate change were loopy and he thought my ideas about the radical far right were hysterical. In the end the fights never really amounted to much. He pissed off some people, but he made just about everybody howl with laughter. He had a way with the nasty phrase (during a spat with MoJo, he called it “the most boring magazine in the world”) but in person he always greeted the people he was going after with high good humor. He talked to anybody and everybody.”

- MoJo’s Jim Ridgeway remembers his former colleague, Alexander Cockburn.

The context for the “most boring magazine in the world” is here. Warning: 1980s.

(via motherjones)

"We are all here today because we want to bring about that moment when we stop adding names. When we..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:43:18 -0400

“We are all here today because we want to bring about that moment when we stop adding names. When we can come to a gathering like this one and not talk about the fight against AIDS, but instead commemorate the birth of a generation that is free of AIDS.”

- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • During a speech at the International AIDS conference on Monday, announcing that the United States would increase AIDS research funding by $80 million. The money will go to a variety of research and clinical projects, including new projects focused on treating pregnant women with HIV and increasing the availability of volunteer circumcision services for men. source (via • follow)

TeachAIDS.org represents a major step towards this goal. Founder Piya Sorcar has created something that is making a difference, country by country, language by language, across the world.

(via changetheratio)

theniftyfifties: Elizabeth Taylor

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:04:15 -0400

theniftyfifties:

Elizabeth Taylor

motherjones: ourpresidents: “In Event of Moon Disaster”, July...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:54:26 -0400

motherjones:

ourpresidents:

“In Event of Moon Disaster”, July 18, 1969.

White House speechwriter, William Safire, was asked to write a speech that President Nixon would make in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.

It was never delivered, and this speech was quietly tucked away into Nixon’s records.

From - “American Originals” Treasures from the National Archives

Source: Nixon Library

Whoa.

"Here is the thing you must bear in mind. I do not represent public opinion. I represent the public...."

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:28:55 -0400

“Here is the thing you must bear in mind. I do not represent public opinion. I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public and the public’s opinion of these interests. I must represent not the excited opinion of the West but the real interests of the whole people.”

- Theodore Roosevelt (via politicalprof)

motherjones: think-progress: LOL CNN via @americablog News...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:27:35 -0400

motherjones:

think-progress:

LOL CNN

via @americablog

News graphics FTW.

latimes: For Sunset, a new dawn: Sunset Boulevard has long...

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:55:28 -0400

latimes:

For Sunset, a new dawn: Sunset Boulevard has long operated as a zipper across the length of the city. But what the boulevard does most dramatically now is provide a bridge from private spaces to a more public-minded kind of city-making.

The second in Christopher Hawthorne’s On the Boulevards series.

Photo: Giant advertisements dominate the Sunset Strip, hoping to catch the eye of a steady stream of revelers. Credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times